-Added DateTimeZoneHandling to control reading and writing DateTime time zone details
-Added reader/writer specific Formatting, DateFormatHandling and DateTimeZoneHandling to JsonSerializerSettings
-Added feature of reader/writer specific settings to be set on JsonReader/JsonWriter when serializing
-Added ReadAsDate to JsonReader
-Added ReadAsString to JsonReader
-Changed JsonTextReader to automatically read ISO strings as dates
-Refactored ReadAsXXX methods and reduce code redundancy
-Removed unused JsonDateTimeSerializationMode
-Added BsonReader, BsonWriter
-Added support for reading and writing byte arrays to JsonReader, JsonWriter and LINQ to JSON classes
-Added ReadAsBytes to JsonReader
-Changed Silverlight build serializer to look for a TypeConverter
-Changed .NET build to not rely on System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations assembly to support .NET 4.0 client profile
-Remove DateTimeOffset stand-in from Compact Framework build
-Fixed .NET 2.0 build to run on environments without .NET 2.0 SP1
-Fixed deserialization to always use a new value created from a JsonConverter
-Fixed XmlNodeConverter to support converting comments in JSON
-Added IValueProvider, ReflectionValueProvider, DynamicValueProvider
-Added Dynamic.snk
-Added Required enum with options Default, AllowNull and Always
-Added serialization event support to Silverlight version
-Added Converter to JsonProperty for JsonConverter
-Changed IsRequired to Required enum
-Changed schema generator to allow for Required enum options
-Changed Silverlight project version to Silverlight 3
-Improved error message when JSON array encountered for object and vice-versa when deserializing
-Improved error message for converting types when deserializing
-Improved error message from getting and setting properties when serializing and deserializing
-Fixed empty string being converted to null when deserializing
-Removed dependency on Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL assemblies
Paul Irwin